Gender-specific patterns and determinants of spillover between work and family: The role of partner support in dual-earner couples
Titelübersetzung:Geschlechtsspezifische Muster und Determinanten von Rollenkonflikten zwischen Arbeit und Familie: Der Einfluss partnerschaftlicher Unterstützung in Zweiverdienerpaaren
Autor/in:
Adams, Ayhan; Golsch, Katrin
Quelle: JFR - Journal of Family Research, 33 (2021) 1, S 72-97
Inhalt: Objective: The study investigates how partner support affects different types of work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts in dual-earner couples divided by gender and parenthood. Background: In Germany, as in other Western Countries, interrole conflicts between work and family increase, especially within dual-earner couples. Only few studies focused on the effects of partner support on different types of these conflicts. Method: We use longitudinal data deriving from waves 6 to 10 of the German Family Panel (pairfam) to uncover the extent to which the perception of having a supportive partner reduces time- and strain-based work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. We conduct longitudinal structural equation models based on information of 1,252 persons, which are full-time employed and live in a dual-earner relationship. Results: Whereas for men partner support helps reduce stress-based work-to-family conflicts, for women perceived partner support is not beneficial. Within a subsample of parents, the experience of work-to-family conflicts is likely irrespective of partner support. Overall, women’s family-to-work conflicts appear to be reduced by their partners’ support whereas for men this detrimental effect only applies in the case of stress-based family-to-work conflicts. Conclusion: To sum up the findings, the differences for men and women in the effect of partner support on different types of interrole conflicts indicate a still existing impact of traditional gender norms that connect femininity to house work and masculinity to employed work.
Schlagwörter:Familie-Beruf; work-family balance; Dual Career Couple; dual career couple; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; Elternschaft; parenthood; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Ungleichheit; inequality; Federal Republic of Germany; partner support; work-family spillover; gender; Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam, release 9.1), wave 6 to 10
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Affective Politics of Care during COVID-19: Feminist Views of Political Discourses and Intersectional Inequalities in Mali
Titelübersetzung:Affektive Politiken der Sorge während COVID-19: Feministische Blickwinkel auf Politische Diskurse und intersektionale Ungleichheiten in Mali
Autor/in:
Hasenöhrl, Syntia
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4, S 100-122
Inhalt: Contrary to many African states’ restrictive COVID-19 measures in the first half of 2020, which had severe socio-economic and political effects, the Malian government appeared more moderate in its fight against the pandemic and even introduced social measures to alleviate the effects of COVID-19 (measures). However, increasing anti-government protests still culminated in a military coup in August 2020. In order to shed light on government commu-
nication during that time as one factor in this paradox, this article focuses on the politics of care constructed by the Malian political elite between March and August 2020. The article uses an affective-discursive approach to analyse government communications and contrasts them with a feminist view of associations, NGOs, and activists. It shows that postcolonial, capitalist, and gendered path dependencies have decreased opportunities for care from the
Malian state and increased the intersectional vulnerabilities of Malians to COVID-19 measures. In addition, the article demonstrates how the affective politics of domestic and international care that were maintained through the presidential discourse used securitisation and solidarity to construct subject positions that, however, incorporate rather than challenge the aforementioned inequalities.
Schlagwörter:Mali; Mali; Pflege; caregiving; Fürsorge; welfare care; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Gesundheitspolitik; health policy; Sozialpolitik; social policy; Westafrika; West Africa; affect; care; political discourse; affective politics; COVID-19; power relations; pandemic
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gesundheitspolitik
Krisengewinner Patriarchat? Wie die COVID-Arbeitsmarktkrise Frauen trifft
Autor/in:
Foissner, Franziska; Glassner, Vera; Theurl, Simon
Quelle: Ein Jahr Corona: Ausblick Zukunft der Arbeit. Wien (Sozialpolitik in Diskussion), 2021, S 56-68
Inhalt: Strategien zur Bewältigung der COVID-19-Pandemie haben Beschäftigte, darunter insbesondere Frauen und prekär Beschäftigte, in höchst ungleichem Ausmaß getroffen. Dieser Beitrag konstatiert eine Zuspitzung prekärer Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse infolge der Corona-Krise. Die Rezeption der Forschungsliteratur zu dem Thema dient der Kontextualisierung empirischer Befunde, die mittels Online-Umfrage der Arbeiterkammer Wien im Sommer 2020 erhoben wurden. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse sind: Von der Polarisierung der Erwerbsbevölkerung waren Frauen besonders betroffen. Die Doppel- und Mehrfachbelastungen prekärer Frauenarbeit hat sich verstärkt. Einer Retraditionalisierung von Geschlechterverhältnissen muss mit gezielten politischen Maßnahmen entgegengewirkt werden.
Schlagwörter:Arbeitswelt; world of work; Epidemie; epidemic; Folgen; consequences; Arbeitsbedingungen; working conditions; prekäre Beschäftigung; precarious employment; woman; Mehrfachbelastung; multiple stress; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Österreich; Austria; Corona; Krise; Bewältigung; COVID-19; Krisengewinner
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitswelt, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Gendergerechte Sprache im DaZ/DaF-Unterricht: Bewertung und Vermittlung durch DaZ/DaF-Lehrkräfte
Autor/in:
Stark, Katharina Sophie
Quelle: Augsburg, 2021. 103 S
Schlagwörter:Deutsch als Fremdsprache; German as a foreign language; Deutsch als Zweitsprache; German as a second language; Fremdsprachenunterricht; foreign language teaching; Sprachgebrauch; language usage; Gendergerechte Sprache; gendern
SSOAR Kategorie:Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Educational attainment and gender differences in work-life balance for couples across Europe: a contextual perspective
Autor/in:
Kromydas, Theocharis
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 4, S 8-22
Inhalt: The current article aims to explain the interrelationships between the educational attainment of individuals living in households with heterosexual partners, their work–life balance (WLB) and the macro-economic climate of the country they live in, using data from the European Social Survey. WLB is a complex concept, as it is not only determined by factors related to someone’s employment or domestic work and childcare responsibilities, but also by decisions informed by personal experiences and circumstances, subjective perceptions and preferences. Moreover, in households with cohabiting partners, this decision-making process involves certain compromises where financial incentives, interests, gender and power dynamics play an important role. Since educational attainment is positively related to labour market outcomes, such as employment and wages, while at the same time more women are participating in education and the labour market, the gender conflict on the division of work and time within households intensifies and traditional gender roles are challenged. WLB is at the heart of this conflict operating as a mechanism through which division of work and time is reconciled on the individual and household level. Results from the current article reveal great heterogeneity between the 17 European countries examined. Perhaps surprisingly, educational attainment can have a detrimental effect on the WLB of spouses and cohabiting partners, especially for women whose level of WLB seems also more sensitive to fluctuations of the macro-economic climate of the country they live in. However, there is an indication that when an economy goes into recession, higher education has a cushioning effect on female’s WLB compared to relatively better economic times.
Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi
Autor/in:
Yang, Lichao; Ren, Xiaodong
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 2, S 58-67
Inhalt: This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subjectivity during the course of migration. However, after migrant women return to their home villages, they usually reassume their roles as care providers and homemakers, which is vividly expressed by a phrase referring to one’s wife as ‘the person inside my home’ (wo jiali de). Meanwhile, although migrant women’s capacity and confidence have greatly increased consequent upon working out of the countryside, their participation in village governance and in the public sphere has been decreasing. Further examination suggests that the reinforcement of gender inequality and the transformation of gender relations result from the continuous interplay of local power relations, market dominance, and unchallenged patrilocal institutions. Through adopting a life course perspective, it challenges too strict a differentiation between migrant and left behind women in existing literature.
Schlagwörter:China; China; Landbevölkerung; rural population; Patriarchat; patriarchy; gender-specific factors; woman; Ethnographie; ethnography; Feldforschung; field research; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; city-country relationship; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; traditionelle Gesellschaft; traditional society; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; gender relations; migration; patriarchy; rural Chinese women
Inhalt: Dieser Artikel beschreibt eine didaktische Intervention an einer deutschen Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften und leitet aus dieser allgemein anwendbare Konzepte für geschlechtergerechte Lehre ab. Dabei wurde ein einführender Kurs in Programmiertechnik von einer externen wissenschaftlichen Begleitung evaluiert. Besonders ist hierbei die Erhebung von Daten sowohl der Lehrenden als auch der Studierenden und der externen Begleitung selbst in drei unterschiedlichen Verfahren, um aus konvergierenden und abweichenden Ergebnissen konkrete Empfehlungen abzuleiten. Die Empfehlungen sind hierbei auch für nicht-technische Lehrveranstaltungen interessant und schildern einerseits die Erfahrungen mit der externen Beratung, bieten andererseits aber auch Anregungen zur Übertragung des Prinzips auf andere Szenarien in der eigenen Lehre.